Partnering Manager
Role Summary
Join World Vision as a Partnering Manager to lead partnership processes and ensure compliance in Syria, improving the lives of vulnerable children and communities.
About the Organisation
For more than 75 years, World Vision has been committed to making a positive and lasting difference in the world. We have become a global leader in improving and transforming the lives of children, their families, and their communities. We help children, families, and communities overcome poverty and injustice, irrespective of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. Every child deserves a life rich in meaning and purpose. We work with the most vulnerable children in the world so they can experience life in all its fullness.
Key Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Syria Response Programs Director, The Partnership Manager is the key interlocutor for all partnership processes across the organization with a specific focus on improving and maintaining quality assurance and compliance. The Partnership Manager will provide strategic guidance and support for all partnership processes and influence senior leadership by advocating for enhanced capacity building and a process that focuses on quality and true dedication to an enabling partnership model that meets both the needs of WVI and the needs of the partner organization.
The Partnership Manager will provide quality assurance and compliance oversight for the partnership process from start to finish, with a specific focus on the pre-selection of partners. Ensuring best practices and the standardization and compliance of all partnership related activities, including but not limited to all partnership agreements. The Partnership Manager will further coordinate and support the Field Operations Team, Grant Aqusition and Management Team, and support service departments toward improved capacity building initiatives for partners, while leading on the development and implementation of the Syria Response partnership strategy. The Partnership Manager will provide strategic leadership and support and day-to-day line management for Partnership Officers based in the field.
- Partnership Compliance and Oversight
- Provide strategic support, leadership and day-to-day line management for Partnership Officers based in the field.
- Influence senior leadership and advocate for improved partnership strategies that enhance effectiveness and enable partners to excel in a culture of growth and a focus on quality.
- Design and maintain a standardized toolkit for partnership engagement / implementation and management throughout project cycle.
- Design and provide strategic oversight on all partnership agreements and ensure appropriate application of all templates according to WVI policies and procedures.
- Ensure compliance concerning all contractual agreements, as well as the partnership process and serves as the focal point for the review and approval process of all Syria Response agreements, including but not limited to, SGA’s, MoUs, LoIs, and PALs.
- Provide leadership and influence a culture of compliance across the organization for all partner related activities, ensuring that the partnership process is followed according to approved protocol and due diligence best practices.
- Manage and lead on the development of the partnership strategy for the Syria Response
- Manage and provide leadership for the design and implementation of a partner database and dashboard and ensure all partner related documentation and evidence is appropriated electronically filed and (where necessary) physically stored to evidence data gathered, as per document storage guidelines.
- Develop a strategy and protocol for Blocked Party Screening (BPS) across departments, concerning partner agencies and partner’s CEO/Board during the project start-up phase and again before SGA signing and notify all WV departments for immediate action when any new OFAC list updates are received.
- Lead and manage efforts to ensure relevant staff of WV and partners attend start-up workshops, ensure that partner’s understand communication channels and how to escalate any challenges they may face during the life of the project.
- Lead and manage all partnership monitoring visits.
- All other duties as requested by the Programs Director
Minimum Requirements
- Required Professional Experience:
- Knowledge and expertise in various aspects of the program management cycle, donor regulations and compliance.
- Five years working experience in relevant field (report writing, academic research, international non-governmental organizations work, law, risk and data analysis, grant quality and compliance)
- Excellent organizational, analytical and oral and written communication skills in English
- Excellent and proven interpersonal and communication skills, particularly with fellow staff donors and stakeholders
- Demonstrated leadership skills in working collaboratively with other partners, donors, stakeholders, host country institutions and international organizations in support of a grant acquisition and/or grant management of a project.
- Proven ability to analyze financial data to inform programmatic management decisions as per organization’s strategy.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and handle multiple tasks.
- Strong training and facilitation skills.
- Strong organization and time management skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to work effectively with teams and communities.
- Knowledge of and familiarity of the Syrian Crisis.
- Ability to analyze and integrate feedback from diverse teams and reach common ground.
- Required willingness and ability to continue to function during a crisis situation, including during a World Vision response to a manmade or natural disaster.
- Computer literate with a high degree of proficiency and productivity – specifically excellent computer skills with proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerBi. Excel, PPT and DB software.
- High sense of responsibility and attention to detail as this position manages financial data
- Experience in report writing, data analysis, financial reporting and public policy or humanitarian law
- Experience in working for non-for-profit organizations and the public sector (or relevant job in the private sector such as risk analyst, compliance officer)
- Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification:
- University (Bachelor essential, master’s preferred) relevant to the field of international relations, political science, disaster management, international development humanitarian law, data management/information systems, international/political studies, sociology, population studies and other related fields.
- Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications
- Detail oriented, with demonstrated experience in follow-up and ensuring complex ideas turn into action.
- Concrete practical hands on experience in remote management aid delivery contexts.
- Strong knowledge of key sectoral areas, including programmatic approaches to health, protection. WASH, Livelihoods, and education programming.
- Experienced and confident in external representation with donors and within formal and informal coordination structures
- Highly developed communication skills (oral and written) with ability to express ideas and concepts clearly and persuasively with senior internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated success as a collaborator and team builder committed to the transfer of knowledge.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure.
- Innovator and calculated risk taker.
- Understands, values and promotes diversity to achieve organizational goals.
- Experience designing and implementing programmes in Syria, through partners, highly preferred.
- Full adherence to World Vision Child Protection, Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest policies.
- Experience establishing, designing and implementing cross-border programmes, through partners, highly preferred.
- Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 20% of the time.
- Position will be based in Syria
- Language Requirements
- Essential: Strong English and Arabic communication skills (oral and written)
Eligibility Criteria
No specific eligibility criteria outlined in the job description.
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